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Urban expansion: theory, evidence and practice
Buildings & Cities, 2023 Cities accommodate population growth both through the densification of their existing footprints and through their expansion into their rural peripheries. In recent decades, most population growth has been accommodated through urban expansion.
Shlomo Angel
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Urban expansion indicators of cities "Case study for Arab cities
Journal of Techniques, 2020 Urban population growth requires an appropriate and suitable place for future population to cope with the expected urban expansion of major cities in developing countries, and to identify an indicator urban expansion to guide planners, architects and ...
Nabil T. Ismael
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, 2021 Spatio-temporal characterization of urban expansion is the first step towards understanding how cities grow in space. We summarize two approaches used in urban expansion measurement, namely, concentric-ring analysis and grid-based analysis.
Yanfang Liu +4 more
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A meta-analysis of global urban land expansion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The conversion of Earth's land surface to urban uses is one of the most irreversible human impacts on the global biosphere. It drives the loss of farmland, affects local climate, fragments habitats, and threatens biodiversity.
Karen C Seto +3 more
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Urban rapid transit network capacity expansion [PDF]
European Journal of Operational Research, 2008 This paper examines a multi-period capacity expansion problem for rapid transit network design. The capacity expansion is realized through the location of train alignments and stations in an urban traffic context by selecting the time periods. The model maximizes the public transportation demand using a limited budget and designing lines for each ...
Marín Gracia, Angel +1 more
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Remote Sensing, 2019 Urban expansion is one of the most dramatic forms of land transformation in the world and it is one of the greatest challenges in achieving sustainable development in the 21st century.
Shaikh Abdullah Al Rifat, Weibo Liu
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 The rapid urban expansion in drylands has threatened local fragile vegetation in recent years. Evaluating the urban expansion impacts on local vegetation in drylands effectively is crucial for promoting regional urban sustainability.
Tao Qi +4 more
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The Urban Sun Belt: An Overview
, 2020 This paper focuses on the 22 metropolitan statistical areas in the Sun Belt with a population of 1 million people or more. Together, they accounted for almost half of all population growth in the entire United States between 2010 and 2016.
Hazle, Shelly G. +3 more
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Exploring Drivers of Urban Expansion
, 2016 Spatial patterns in urban land development are linked with the level and type of economic activity. Here, we develop a statistical model to explore the relationship between the spatially explicit population density and the type of land use in a region. The relationship between the type of land use (urban/non-urban) and the level of economic activity is
Anna Shchiptsova +2 more
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Quantifying the drivers of urban expansion in Nepal
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020 The Tarai region of Nepal is regarded as the food bowl of Nepal, and yet urban areas have increased in size at an average annual rate of 12% for the 30 years since 1988/1989, largely at the expense of prime agricultural land. Nepal is recognized internationally as highly sensitive to food security with 40% of its population undernourished.
Rijal, S, Rimal, B, Stork, N, Sharma, HP
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